BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

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Post by RGBCube » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 1:12 AM UTC

BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem
bgp.tools

Re: BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

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Post by dapperdrake » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 1:36 AM UTC

This tool looks really good. It seems like soon ASN level bot-curbing will become common.

Re: BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

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Post by TheBoozyGenius » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 1:43 AM UTC

Pretty zany.

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Post by RGBCube » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 1:45 AM UTC

dapperdrake wrote: post #2

This tool looks really good. It seems like soon ASN level bot-curbing will become common.

It is really good for blocking whole Chinese & LLM scraper ASNs!

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Post by ranger_danger » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 1:58 AM UTC

dapperdrake wrote: post #2

This tool looks really good. It seems like soon ASN level bot-curbing will become common.

cidr-report.org has been around for over 20 years, curious why you think this site now will make a difference with blocking bots?

Re: BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

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Post by ddtaylor » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 2:01 AM UTC

A while ago there was a large data center outage that effected a lot of popular services and I speculated it might have been BGP, but it wasn't.

During that time I was trying to learn BGP on-the-fly enough to know if this was a thing and I didn't have a lot of luck.

What are some good methods or tools to know if BGP is causing a large scale outage before other experts have reported it?

Re: BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

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Post by rumblefrog » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 2:09 AM UTC

I find the map the most interesting map: https://map.bgp.tools/

And did not know Mercedes holds such a large block (53.0.0.0/8), and it appears to be mostly dark or unused.

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Post by dgl » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 2:09 AM UTC

ddtaylor wrote: post #6

A while ago there was a large data center outage that effected a lot of popular services and I speculated it might have been BGP, but it wasn't. During that time I was trying to learn BGP on-the-fly enough to know if this was a thing and I didn't have a lot of luck. What are some good methods or tools to know if BGP is causing a large scale outage before other experts have reported it?

https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing might be of interest for aggregated data that doesn't require a complete understanding of the internet. The global looking glass that bgp.tools has is pretty powerful too, but it gives you a lot of data, so if you don't know what you're looking for or what it should look like it's hard to say something is wrong.

Re: BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

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Post by tomhow » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 2:43 AM UTC

Previously:

BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36531988 - June 2023 (17 comments)

Re: BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem

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Post by mike_d » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 3:16 AM UTC

rumblefrog wrote: post #7

I find the map the most interesting map: https://map.bgp.tools/ And did not know Mercedes holds such a large block (53.0.0.0/8), and it appears to be mostly dark or unused.

The map also does a good job showing why we need to do away with multicast/class E and reuse the address space.